Indiscriminate airstrikes kill 24 in Gaza City
Published: 04:06 PM,Jun 25,2024 | EDITED : 08:06 PM,Jun 25,2024
Men and children search through debris in the yard of the Asma school run by the UNRWA, in the Shati camp. — AFP
CAIRO: Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes early on Tuesday on Gaza City and the dead included a sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of the Palestinian group Hamas, Gaza health officials and medics said. Israeli tanks also pressed deeper into western areas of Rafah in the south of the enclave overnight, blowing up homes, residents said.
Two of the Israeli airstrikes hit two schools in Gaza City, killing at least 14 people, medics said. Another strike on a house in the Shati (Beach) camp, one of the Gaza Strip's eight historic refugee camps, killed 10 others.
Israel's military said its forces had targeted Palestinian groups overnight in Gaza City who had been involved in the planning of attacks on Israel. The groups included some involved in holding captives and some who had taken part in cross-border attack on Oct. 7.
Hamas movement denies using civilian facilities such as schools and hospitals for military purposes. The group described the attacks on the two schools and the house in Shati camp as 'massacres'.
Separately, the armed wings of Palestinian groups said in a joint statement their fighters had fired mortar bombs overnight against Israeli forces in the Yibna neighbourhood of eastern Rafah.
In nearby Khan Younis, medics said Israeli tank shelling killed seven Palestinians and wounded several other people at a tent camp in the west of the city.
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said chaos was taking hold in Gaza as smuggling bands form and add to the difficulties of delivering sorely needed aid.
A high risk of famine also persists across the Gaza Strip as the conflict rages on unabated and humanitarian access remains restricted, a global hunger monitor said on Tuesday.
The Israeli offensive in retaliation has so far killed 37,658 people, the Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday, and has left the tiny, densely populated Gaza Strip in ruins.
Since early May, fighting has focused on Rafah, abutting Egypt on Gaza's southern edge, where around half of the enclave's 2.3 million people had been sheltering after fleeing other areas. Most have since had to flee again.
Gaza's health ministry said on Tuesday that hospitals and medical centres in the enclave were experiencing a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies due to the continued Israeli offensive, Israel's control and closure of all crossings and its targeting of the health sector in Gaza. In particularly short supply are medications needed for emergency, anaesthesia, intensive care and operations, the ministry said in a statement. — Reuters
Two of the Israeli airstrikes hit two schools in Gaza City, killing at least 14 people, medics said. Another strike on a house in the Shati (Beach) camp, one of the Gaza Strip's eight historic refugee camps, killed 10 others.
Israel's military said its forces had targeted Palestinian groups overnight in Gaza City who had been involved in the planning of attacks on Israel. The groups included some involved in holding captives and some who had taken part in cross-border attack on Oct. 7.
Hamas movement denies using civilian facilities such as schools and hospitals for military purposes. The group described the attacks on the two schools and the house in Shati camp as 'massacres'.
Separately, the armed wings of Palestinian groups said in a joint statement their fighters had fired mortar bombs overnight against Israeli forces in the Yibna neighbourhood of eastern Rafah.
In nearby Khan Younis, medics said Israeli tank shelling killed seven Palestinians and wounded several other people at a tent camp in the west of the city.
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said chaos was taking hold in Gaza as smuggling bands form and add to the difficulties of delivering sorely needed aid.
A high risk of famine also persists across the Gaza Strip as the conflict rages on unabated and humanitarian access remains restricted, a global hunger monitor said on Tuesday.
The Israeli offensive in retaliation has so far killed 37,658 people, the Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday, and has left the tiny, densely populated Gaza Strip in ruins.
Since early May, fighting has focused on Rafah, abutting Egypt on Gaza's southern edge, where around half of the enclave's 2.3 million people had been sheltering after fleeing other areas. Most have since had to flee again.
Gaza's health ministry said on Tuesday that hospitals and medical centres in the enclave were experiencing a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies due to the continued Israeli offensive, Israel's control and closure of all crossings and its targeting of the health sector in Gaza. In particularly short supply are medications needed for emergency, anaesthesia, intensive care and operations, the ministry said in a statement. — Reuters